Month: May 2017

Some days I feel like powder
Breaking
Crushed to dust
A drop of rain
A gentle breeze
Could make me disappear.
Some days I feel like powder
Fleeting
Chalk on board
A written thought
A lesson learned
All gone with just a wipe.

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I’m not really sure where in my brain this came from. I was standing outside, sipping my coffee, watching the day break. Cloudy and gray, but I wasn’t feeling sad or even feeling anything in particular.

I tried to add a few more verses to include some positive thoughts, but I couldn’t seem to make them work. Those lines felt out of place.

When a poem wants to be born from your imagination there is no choice but to let it happen.

Thanks for reading!

~ Tami

* Images from pixaby.com

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Every Wednesday my son Bill comes over for dinner. I always make him a nice home cooked meal and send him home with some leftovers. I also make dessert every Wednesday too. It is the only night of the week that dessert is guaranteed.

On the menu last week:

Chicken Parmesan!

This is one of Bill’s favorite recipes. When he was little this was the meal he always ordered whenever we would go out to eat. I love making chicken parm for him and always make a huge batch so he gets extra leftovers to bring home.

Have you ever felt like someone or something was looking out for you? Not all encounters with spirits are scary. Sometimes when you don’t even realize you need it, these unseen entities are there at just the time you need them most.

Every Wednesday my son Bill comes over for dinner. I always make him a nice home cooked meal and send him home with some leftovers. I also make dessert every Wednesday too. It is the only night of the week that dessert is guaranteed.

On the menu last week:

Chili con Carne!

Hubby and I like spicier chili, but Bill prefers it milder so I kept it toned down for him. I use Rotel canned tomatoes with chiles, dark and light kidney beans, and black beans in my chili recipe. Ground beef, onions, bell pepper, garlic, cumin and chili powder in the dutch oven and let is set on low heat for a few hours – Delicious!!

And for dessert – Coconut Custard Pie!

I had a bag of sweetened coconut in my pantry for a few months. I think I was going to make coconut macaroons with it but kept forgetting to buy maraschino cherries – and you can’t have coconut macaroons without a cherry on top!!

So the bag of coconut became Coconut Custard Pie! My mom used to make coconut custard pie every Thanksgiving and it was one of my favorites. Here’s the recipe I found on Allrecipes.com that tasted just like mom used to make.

Coconut Custard Pie

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter

1 1/2 cups white sugar

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup flaked coconut

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie

1 tablespoon flaked coconut

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

In a large bowl, beat together butter or margarine, sugar, and eggs with an electric mixer on low speed. Blend in flour. Mix in 1/2 cup of milk at a time. Add 1 cup coconut and vanilla, and mix well.

Pour filling into unbaked pie shell. Sprinkle top with additional coconut before baking, just enough to lightly cover the top. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until set.

This recipe is for unsweetened coconut – since I had sweetened coconut I cut the sugar down to 1 cup instead of 1 1/2 cups. I also used heavy cream instead of milk because I had some that I wanted to use up. The custard was nice and firm but still smooth and creamy, so if I make this again I will use heavy cream or half and half instead of milk.

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